In designing the design and monitoring frameworks (DMFs) for the COVID-19 Pandemic Response Option (CPRO), the approach was to extract aspects of the government's response plan that reflected ADB priorities and offered points of engagement with the government, and to restrict the number of indicators and targets so as not to burden the government. However, an unintended consequence is that this can weaken the logic and evidence base of the DMF, making it difficult to satisfactorily demonstrate the achievement of the program outcome. Technically, the design issue is that the broadly stated national-level outcome is over reliant on one or two indicators and targets (weak horizontal logic) and narrowly and inadequately supported by outputs (weak vertical logic).
COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program